&sq=&lang=&file=File:HMS_Hector_(1862).jpg) Line drawing of the Valiant
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | Valiant |
| Ordered | 25 January 1861 |
| Builder | |
| Laid down | February 1861 |
| Launched | 14 October 1863 |
| Completed | 15 September 1868 |
| Commissioned | September 1868 |
| Decommissioned | 1885 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap, 1956 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Hector-class armoured frigate |
| Displacement | 7,000 long tons (7,100 t) |
| Length | 280 ft 2 in (85.4 m) |
| Beam | 56 ft 4 in (17.2 m) |
| Draught | 26 ft 2 in (8 m) |
| Installed power | |
| Propulsion | 1 shaft, 1 HRCR steam engine |
| Sail plan | Barque-rigged |
| Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Range | 800 nmi (1,500 km; 920 mi) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Complement | 530 |
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| Armour | |
HMS Valiant was the second ship of the Hector-class armoured frigates ordered by the Royal Navy in 1861. Her builders went bankrupt shortly after she was laid down, which significantly delayed her completion. After being launched in 1863, she waited a further five years to receive her guns due to supply issues. Upon being commissioned in 1868 the ship was assigned as the First Reserve guard ship for Southern Ireland, where she remained until she was decommissioned in 1885. Valiant was hulked in 1897 as part of the stoker training school HMS Indus before becoming a storeship for kite balloons during the First World War. The ship was converted to a floating oil tank in 1926 and served in that role until sold for scrap in 1956.